. Canadian forest industries January-June 1915. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 32 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER January 1, lBli Providing Food for Camp Employees Modern Methods Used by the Stearns Salt and Lumber Company in Feeding their Employees in the Gamps In the early days of lumbering operations in Michigan, the mat- ter of feeding the men was governed by about the same policy as governed the feeding of foremast hands at sea in the days of the bucko mate. In fact, more than one phase of handling men in the lumber woods bore
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1915. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 32 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER January 1, lBli Providing Food for Camp Employees Modern Methods Used by the Stearns Salt and Lumber Company in Feeding their Employees in the Gamps In the early days of lumbering operations in Michigan, the mat- ter of feeding the men was governed by about the same policy as governed the feeding of foremast hands at sea in the days of the bucko mate. In fact, more than one phase of handling men in the lumber woods bore a striking resemblance to their government at sea when men were shanghaied aboard outbound ships and worked within an inch of their lives,, But with the passing years the old order has changed both at sea and in the lumber woods. The feeding of men in the woods at the present time more nearly resembles the feeding of an army in war. We have made the discovery that men both fight and work better on a full stomach; but that stomach must be full of the things which build bone and muscle and furnish the energy to move them. In other words, the ration must be, as in war, a balanced ration con- taining the different food ingredients in correct, proportion and in the most economical form. In other days it was thought that pork and beans, "red horse," "sow belly," soggy bread without butter and muddy coffee without sugar or milk, if furnished in sufficient quantity, ought to satisfy the most exacting lumberjack. But whether it satisfied him or not, that was all he received day in and day out. No attention was given to variety or palatability. It took all the stamina of the shanty boy with his ostrich-like stomach and constant outdoor exercise in the health-giving pine woods, to survive such a diet. Now, both beans and pork rank high in food values, but when eaten constantly, day in and day out, they lose their food values through sheer unpalat- ability. You remember
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